Book Project

Tentatively titled Tracing Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music, the project follows paths to reimagining the sounds of nineteenth-century improvisation in well-known pieces from the period.  

Articles and Book Chapters

Rabinovitch, Gilad. (Accepted). "Rational Deceptions? An Analytical Exploration of Tonality, Meter, and Form in C. P. E. Bach's Symphony in D Major, Wq. 183/1." Theory and Practice. 

Rabinovitch, Gilad. (Accepted). "Reconstructing a Fantasy: Music Theory Meets Historical Improvisation and Composition." SMT-V. 

[A recording of my reimagined fantasy after Carl Czerny, performed by pianist Bang-Shyuan Chen, can be found here]

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2024. "Navigating Schemata and Hexachords: Case Studies from Solfeggi by Giuseppe Aprile." Music Theory & Analysis 11 (1): 106–18. https://doi.org/10.11116/MTa.11.1.5 

Rabinovitch, Gilad, and Aaron Carter-Enyi. 2024. "Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata: Implications for Eighteenth-Century European Musicianship." Music Theory Online 30 (1).  https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.24.30.1/mto.24.30.1.rabinovitch_carter-enyi.html

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2023. "Reimagining Fauré’s Harmony." Intégral 36: 55-101. https://www.esm.rochester.edu/integral/36-2023/rabinovitch

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2022. "In Search of Carl Czerny's Schemata: Listening to Early Nineteenth-Century Improvisation." Music Theory Spectrum 44 (2): 370–97.

[Available here, received a 2023 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory].

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2022. "Haydn's Schemata and Hexachords: Two Analytical Case Studies." HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America 12 (1).  https://remix.berklee.edu/haydn-journal/vol12/iss1/1 

Carter-Ényì, Aaron, and Gilad Rabinovitch. 2021. “Onset and Contiguity: Melodic Feature Reduction and Pattern Discovery.” Music Theory Online 27 (4).

https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.21.27.4/mto.21.27.4.carterenyi-rabinovitch.html

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2020. “Hidden Polyphony, Linear Hierarchy, and Scale-Degree Associations in Galant Schemata.” Indiana Theory Review 36 (1–2): 114–66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/inditheorevi.36.1-2.05 and https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765765

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2020. “Reimagining Historical Improvisation: An Analysis of Robert Levin’s Fantasy on Themes by W. A. Mozart, October 29, 2012.” Music Theory Online 26 (2).  https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.rabinovitch.html 

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2020. “Concatenating and Embellishing Schemata in Historical Keyboard Improvisation.” In Das Universalinstrument: »Angewandtes Klavierspiel« aus historischer und zeitgenössischer Perspektive / The Universal Instrument: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on “Applied Piano,”  edited by Philipp Teriete and Derek Remeš, 85–122. Hildesheim: Olms.

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2019 [published in 2020]. "Unplayed Galant Melodies, the Ubiquity of the Rarest Interval, and the Heyday of the Major Mode." Empirical Musicology Review 14 (3–4):  90–134.  https://emusicology.org/article/view/6070/5602  [David Clampitt's commentary on this article can be found here: https://emusicology.org/article/view/7571/5607]

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2019. “Engaging Chopin’s Nocturnes: Model Composition and Nineteenth-Century Diminutions.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 33: 177–203.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KiFwfbGzS_ikTjGZQ5n6VUcpP3wnP8yk/view

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2019. “Implicit Counterpoint in Gjerdingen’s Schemata.” Music Theory & Analysis 6 (1): 1-49.  https://doi.org/10.11116/MTA.6.1.1 

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2018. “Daniel Jelensperger’s (1830) Views on Harmonic Impressions, Key Finding, and Statistical Learning.” Theoria 25: 35–62. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1613636/m1/36/?q=Theoria 

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2018. “Gjerdingen’s Schemata Reexamined.” Journal of Music Theory 62 (1): 41–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-4450636

Rabinovitch, Gilad, and Martin Norgaard. 2018. “Incorporating Model Composition and Improvisation into the Theory Curriculum: Further Reflections on Benefits and Challenges.” Engaging Students 6. http://flipcamp.org/engagingstudents6/essays/rabinovitchnorgard.html 

Rabinovitch, Gilad, and Johnandrew Slominski. 2015. “Towards a Galant Pedagogy: Partimenti and Schemata as Tools in the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Style Improvisation.” Music Theory Online 21 (3). http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.3/mto.15.21.3.rabinovitch.html 

Book Reviews

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2023. Review of Nicholas Baragwanath, The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. Journal of Music Theory 67 (2): 356–68.

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2021. Review of Gianmario Borio and Angela Carone (eds.), Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven. Eighteenth-Century Music 18 (2): 298–302.

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2017. Review of Massimiliano Guido (ed.), Studies in Historical Improvisation from Cantare super Librum to Partimenti. Music Theory Online 23 (4). http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.4/mto.17.23.4.rabinovitch.html 

Conference Proceedings

Carter-Ényì, Aaron, Gilad Rabinovitch, and Nathaniel Condit-Schultz. 2021. "Visualizing Intertextual Form with Arc Diagrams: Contour and Schema-Based Methods." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Online. https://archives.ismir.net/ismir2021/paper/000008.pdf

Rabinovitch, Gilad. 2017. “C. P. E. Bach’s ‘Art’ and ‘Craft’? Galant Schemata and the Rule of the Octave as Markers of Convention in Selected Keyboard Works and in the Versuch.” Musicologica Brunensia 52 (1): 89–100. (Proceedings of Musica Artificiosa: 51st International Musicological Colloquium, Masaryk University, Brno). https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/136931